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Falsehood is a perennial spring.
Edmund Burke
Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.
Aleister Crowley
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Samuel Johnson
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.
Albert Camus
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous than the fact which it endeavors to establish.
David Hume
Grow your tree of falsehood from a small grain of truth. Do not follow those who lie in contempt of reality. Let your lie be even more logical than the truth itself, so the weary travelers may find repose.
Czesław Miłosz
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
William James
Mankind are an incorrigible race. Give them but bugbears and idols --it is all that they ask the distinctions of right and wrong, of truth and falsehood, of good and evil, are worse than indifferent to them.
William Hazlitt
Truth is so obscure in these times, and falsehood so established, that, unless we love the truth, we cannot know it.
Blaise Pascal
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
Tacitus
Had I a heart for falsehood framed, I ne'er could injure you.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
God's mouth knows not how to speak falsehood, but he brings to pass every word.
Aeschylus
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell
Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.
Miguel de Cervantes
Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Times glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
William Shakespeare
I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false is guilty of falsehood, and the accidental truth of the assertion does not justify or excuse him.
Abraham Lincoln
He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it a second and third time, till at length it becomes habitual; he tells lies without attending to it, and truths without the world's believing him. This falsehood of tongue leads to that of the heart, and in time depraves all its good dispositions.
Thomas Jefferson
Though Truth and Falsehood be Near twins, yet Truth a little elder is.
John Donne
For politicians truth and falsehood are unimportant. So I never could become a politician - not even a church politician.
Martin Niemöller
Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever; but, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an economy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure, that he may speak it the longer.
Edmund Burke
Since I wasn't able to leave a succession of beautiful lies, I want to leave the smidgen of truth that the falsehood of everything lets us suppose we can tell.
Fernando Pessoa
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